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Ichthyophis
''Ichthyophis'' is a genus of caecilians (limbless amphibians, sometimes called the Asian caecilians) found in Southeast Asia, the southern Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ..., and the western Indo-Australian Archipelago. In Sri Lanka, three species occur. All are found in almost all habitats, but are known to prefer moist ones. The most common is ''Ichthyophis glutinosus'', which is found in almost all altitudes; the others are ''I. orthoplicatus'', which is found in similar habitat to ''I. glutinosus'', but will not be found in lowlands below above sea level; and ''I. pseudangularis'', found in lowlands below ASL. A new species was recently discovered called '' Ichthyophis multicolor''. Species References * * AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ichthyophis Bannanicus
The Koh Tao Island caecilian (''Ichthyophis kohtaoensis'') is a species of amphibian in the family Ichthyophiidae found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Also known as the ''Ichthyophis bannanicus'', the Banna caecilian, it is also found in southern China. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss. The scientific name refers to Ko Tao Island in the Gulf of Siam, where the type specimen In biology, a type is a particular wikt:en:specimen, specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated. In other words, a type is an example that serves to ancho ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ichthyophis Multicolor
''Ichthyophis multicolor'' is a species of caecilians endemic to Burma. It is only known from its type locality in the Ayeyarwady Region. A unique characteristic of this species is that it is the only '' Ichthyophis'' species besides '' I. tricolor'' that has a pale vent, as well as an adjacent darker stripe running lengthwise down the vent's sides. References multicolor Multicolor is a Subtractive color, subtractive two-color Color motion picture film, motion picture process. Multicolor, introduced to the motion picture industry in 1929, was based on the earlier Prizma, Prizma Color process, and was the forer ... Amphibians described in 2014 Amphibians of Myanmar Endemic fauna of Myanmar {{Caecilian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
